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The Dolphins signed a player on Thursday afternoon, just not the franchise quarterback the fans hope to see at Friday’s first practice of the season.

The Dolphins signed former Bengals and Browns guard Eric Steinbach, his agent Jack Bechta confirmed. Steinbach, Cincinnati’s second-round pick in 2003, started 124 games in eight NFL seasons before missing the 2011 season with a back injury. Steinbach (6-6, 295) will reunite with Dolphins coach Joe …

Updates from Monday’s practice, the first of four straight days of organized team activities for the Dolphins:

* Related to our story about Chad Ochocinco already working out for the Dolphins, coach Joe Philbin said he and offensive coordinator Mike Sherman are concerned about the number of dropped passes by the receivers, tight ends and running backs through the first seven OTA sessions.

A harsh reality of life in the NFL is that 99 percent of NFL athletes have something to prove every season. Only the rare superstar like Tom Brady or Larry Fitzgerald has his starting job guaranteed. For everyone else, every day is an opportunity to lose (or win) a job.

You always have the young rookies and veteran fighting to carve out a spot in the NFL, as well as the …

Exciting news in Dolphins world today, as the team announced it will be featured on the HBO reality TV series “Hard Knocks.” You can read all about it HERE, and here are the other updates from Tuesday’s practice, which was open to the media:

* The Dolphins have had perfect attendance at their offseason workouts ever since Cameron Wake signed his contract extension last month, but one veteran was noticeably …

The Dolphins just finished their first Organized Team Activity of the offseason, and we’ll have full articles later today about the quarterback competition – and everyone’s reaction to Stephen Ross’ comment that Matt Moore will “probably” be the starting quarterback – and about the hectic pace of the Dolphins’ practices.

Here are several other quick hit items from today’s OTA, the first full-squad practice of the 2012 season:

Dolphins general manager Jeff Ireland has a lot of pressure on him to hit on the Dolphins’ first-round pick (eighth overall) in this week’s NFL Draft, whether that means taking quarterback Ryan Tannehill or someone else.

But there’s just as much pressure on him to hit on the second- and third-round picks as well. Ireland said last week that “those guys need to be either starters or significant role players,” yet …

New Dolphins coach Joe Philbin quickly identified an area of his team on Tuesday that needs to improve in 2012.

“My feeling as I watched the tape, the offensive line needs to get better if our quarterback position is going to play better, and so that’s going to be a priority,” he said at the NFL owners meetings.

Philbin, a former offensive line coach in Green Bay and the University of Iowa, …

New Dolphins coach Joe Philbin has spent much of the last two months locked away in the video rooms at the team’s training facility, watching game tape of the 2011 team and familiarizing himself with …